It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

I can be a cruel person.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

I get asked a lot why Apple’s customers are so loyal. It’s not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That’s ridiculous.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

There’s no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

Google’s done a super good job on search; Apple’s done a great job on the IPod.

I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.

I’m an emotional person.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

I’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don’t take themselves too seriously.

When people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.

Consequences are unpitying.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

I’m very free-spirited.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.